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What is LIS?
LIS brochure (pdf 747kb)
LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?

Wealth Inequalities and Homeownership – Two Perspectives
This article by Sebastian Will is emphasizing the huge role that homeownership plays in shaping wealth inequalities.

Impact of the 2018 fiscal reform on wage income in Romania
The recent fiscal reforms in Romania led to a significant increase in gross wages.

2019 Labour Income Tax Reform in Lithuania
The recent fiscal reforms in Lithuania led to a significant increase in gross wages.

The ‘lissyrtools’ R package V0.1: Functions for computing inequality estimates in the LISSY environment
Josep Espasa Reig describes lissyrtools, a newly released R package developed at LIS.